The election of Donald Trump and the sudden prominence of white nationalists organising in the streets has caught many people by surprise. But for people of colour, racism has been a part of their daily experience of the world their entire lives.

In the week after the events in Charlottesville where an anti-racisim protester was killed by a white supremacist, and Pauline Hanson wore a burqa in Parliament to speak against Muslim immigration to Australia, we spoke to Tim Lo Surdo and Ngaire Sidhu from Democracy In Colour, a new organisation run by people of colour to tackle structural racism in Australia, to talk about what this volatile political moment means for people of colour and how growing up under structural racism impacts their mental health.